Soliton RIS Integration

Trusted by NHS organisations, imaging networks, diagnostic providers, and healthtech innovators, 6B delivers full-lifecycle Soliton RIS integration, from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. We build secure, scalable integrations for electronic referrals, radiology dashboards, reporting tools, patient communications, regional sharing, and clinical decision support.

Our team combines radiology workflow knowledge with expertise in HL7 FHIR, HL7 messaging, DICOM, REST APIs, contextual launch, identity management, and clinical safety. We ensure requests, images, reports, and alerts remain accurately linked to the correct patient, examination, and clinical team.

Understanding Soliton RIS

Soliton IT provides radiology information systems, reporting applications, workflow tools, voice recognition, and clinical data-sharing solutions. Its principal RIS product, Radiology+, supports diagnostic imaging activity across individual departments and multi-site environments.

Radiology+ manages patient planning, resource allocation, clinical images, results distribution, and operational reporting through configurable workflows. It also supports scheduling, self-check-in, mobile access, DICOM image management, statistical analysis, and integration with PACS, EPR, PAS, VNA, and specialist applications.

The wider portfolio includes Reporting+ for reporting and speech recognition, and Share+ for cross-site workload and information sharing. These services can support remote reporting, regional patient histories, image retrieval, shared scheduling, and vetting.

The platform can also incorporate third-party clinical decision support to improve referral quality and streamline vetting.

Our Soliton RIS Integration Process

We begin with structured discovery involving radiology, clinical, operational, digital, technical, and governance stakeholders. Together, we define workflows, users, data requirements, safety constraints, and intended outcomes.

Typical integrations include electronic referrals, demographic synchronisation, appointment availability, examination updates, contextual viewer launch, reporting and AI tools, report distribution, patient communications, and analytics.

We map identifiers and information throughout the imaging lifecycle, including NHS numbers, local identifiers, referrals, procedures, appointments, accession numbers, worklists, examination statuses, images, reports, amendments, and acknowledgements.

Architecture may use HL7 v2, FHIR, REST APIs, DICOM, DICOMweb, integration engines, secure web services, contextual launch, or event-driven messaging. We define responsibilities across RIS, PACS, VNA, EPR, PAS, modalities, and regional sharing services.

Authentication can support OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, service accounts, and role-based access.

Reusable components accelerate delivery, including HL7 parsers, FHIR handlers, DICOM connectors, identity-matching services, and routing pipelines. Secure testing validates referrals, patient matching, appointments, accession handling, worklists, reports, permissions, audit trails, failure recovery, and downtime reconciliation.

Before launch, we coordinate acceptance testing, clinical safety review, deployment, training, and documentation. After go-live, we monitor data flows, resolve issues, and maintain compatibility with Soliton and NHS changes.

Benefits of Soliton RIS Integration

Clinicians gain faster access to requests, appointment details, examination status, images, and reports within established workflows. Radiology teams receive clearer electronic referrals, reducing clarification and supporting effective vetting.

Scheduling and communication integrations improve appointment coordination, reminders, preparation instructions, cancellations, and rescheduling. Radiographers benefit from accurate patient and procedure information, while radiologists gain connected reporting, viewing, voice-recognition, and decision-support tools.

Patients benefit from smoother pathways and fewer delays between referral, booking, imaging, reporting, and follow-up.

Operational teams gain visibility of demand, waiting times, capacity, cancellations, backlogs, and turnaround times. Imaging networks can also share histories, images, reporting workloads, scheduling, and vetting across organisations.

For healthtech vendors, Soliton integration provides reusable, standards-based access to established NHS imaging workflows.

Why Choose 6B for Soliton RIS Integration?

6B designs around the complete radiology pathway, keeping information accurate and traceable from referral through results delivery.

Our specialists understand HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, DICOM, DICOMweb, APIs, integration engines, secure web services, and event-driven messaging.

We manage complex terminology and coding requirements, including procedure catalogues, modality codes, laterality, urgency, examination status, report types, and amendments.

Reusable message handlers, DICOM connectors, matching services, authentication flows, transformation frameworks, validation tools, and monitoring components accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

Security, governance, and privacy are embedded through encryption, role-based access, permissions, audit logging, data minimisation, and sensitive-information controls.

We support DCB0129 and DCB0160 through hazard management, validation, alerting, reconciliation, downtime procedures, and operational controls.

From discovery to maintenance, 6B provides one accountable partner for regional interoperability, third-party workflows, and dependable NHS imaging integration.

Soliton RIS Integration FAQs

What is Soliton RIS?

Soliton’s Radiology+ is a radiology information system used to manage imaging referrals, scheduling, patient workflows, reporting, resource allocation, and operational data across NHS and independent radiology services.

Can Soliton RIS integrate with third-party systems?

Yes. Radiology+ can connect with EPR, PAS, order communications, PACS, VNA, imaging modalities, reporting, and analytics systems. Soliton states that it has proven integration with a wide range of PACS platforms.

What information can be exchanged with Soliton RIS?

An integration may exchange patient demographics, imaging referrals, appointments, procedure details, accession numbers, examination statuses, reports, amendments, worklist information, and acknowledgements.

Which interoperability standards can be used?

Depending on the deployment, integrations may use HL7 and DICOM alongside secure interfaces, integration engines, and contextual links. Soliton’s Share+ platform uses standard HL7 and DICOM interfaces to connect imaging systems.

Can Soliton RIS support remote reporting?

Yes. Soliton’s Reporting+ module connects with existing RIS and PACS environments and supports configurable reporting workflows, voice recognition, workflow monitoring, and operational statistics.

Can Soliton support multi-site imaging networks?

Yes. Share+ enables organisations to share radiology data, reporting, vetting, and workloads across regional networks without replacing their existing RIS or PACS platforms.

How do you keep a Soliton RIS integration clinically safe?

We use patient and examination-matching controls, procedure-code validation, message acknowledgements, role-based access, audit trails, exception handling, reconciliation, and downtime procedures. We also support applicable DCB0129 and DCB0160 responsibilities.

How long does a Soliton RIS integration take?

Timescales depend on the workflows, available interfaces, procedure mappings, PACS connections, regional-sharing requirements, supplier coordination, governance, and testing. A focused interface may take several weeks, while a multi-site programme may take several months.

Readiness checklist for Soliton RIS Integration

Define the radiology workflows and use cases your integration will support, such as referral, vetting, scheduling, image access, reporting, workload sharing, patient communication, or analytics.
Identify the Soliton RIS, Reporting+, Share+, EPR, PAS, order communications, PACS, VNA, modality, and third-party systems involved in each workflow.
Confirm which HL7 messages, FHIR resources, RESTful APIs, DICOM services, contextual-launch methods, or integration-engine connections are available within the target deployment.
Map patient identifiers, referrals, appointments, accession numbers, procedure codes, studies, examination statuses, reports, amendments, and acknowledgements across connected systems.
Confirm how procedure catalogues, modality codes, body sites, laterality, urgency, report statuses, and clinical alerts will be mapped and validated.
Define which system will act as the source of truth for demographics, referrals, appointments, examination status, images, reports, and report amendments.
Document how shared workflows, regional patient histories, image access, and cross-site reporting will be governed where Share+ or another network platform is involved.
Confirm authentication, authorisation, NHS CIS2, single sign-on, role-based access, organisation context, encryption, service-account, and audit-logging requirements.
Prepare governance and clinical safety documentation, including the lawful basis, DPIA, DSPT position, and applicable DCB0129 or DCB0160 responsibilities.
Develop a testing plan covering synthetic data, duplicate referrals, cancellations, patient merges, unavailable modalities, PACS downtime, amended reports, critical findings, regional workflows, peak volumes, and clinical user acceptance.
Agree deployment, training, monitoring, incident management, supplier coordination, interface change control, upgrades, and ongoing support arrangements before production go-live.